The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-05
GEN. DARR AND KISSANE,
WHOM BE PERsECUrEs FOR THE
MONEY HE CAN MAIZE.
WIN the wife OF the Hunted man
Has 10 Say About the
Matter.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, June A.
A trip was made this morning to the
home OF Col. Rodgers, alias Kissane,
in Sonoma, and from Mrs. Rodgers
the following interesting statement
was secured: THE whole sad bust
ness" said the lady, began some
time before everything came out,
when Rodgers received a demand
for $34, 900 from Gen. Davis's attor-
neys, which they claimed was owing
to the Chemical Bank. They said
in their note that it was delicate
matter, and Col. Rogers had better
come down to San Francis co and see
them about it. Col. Rogers said he
did not owe 1874, 900 to the Chemical
Bank or any other money, and would
not take the trouble to answer them.
But the hint about its being deli
cate matter worried him, aud he
feared that when he allowed them to
force money from him they would
give him lot of trouble
about that old indictment that
had never been quashed. So he
sent on to New York to have the in
dictment set aside, bus gentlemen in
New York found the strongest oppo-
sition, and he had hardly made his
request to the court before every pa
per published the whole story Of the
old trouble"
How is Darr interested in tho
Chemical BaEk2"
III never heard" said Mrs. Rogers,
that he was an officer or stockhold-
er, and | don't believe he has any
honest interest there, but he Just
went to the bank when he found out
Col. Rogers and got them to allow
him to try and get a lot of money,
for L am told he said he would
sdeeze Kissane dry as an orange and
then kick him round the street. If
my husband alone was made to suffer
it would still be cruel after all these
years; but what have my sons and
daughters done that they should be
tortured aud dread that people would
point them out contemptuously wher-
ever they may go2 What convinces
me most OF the malignity of Gen.
Darr is the hypocritical way in
which he and his wife treated us
some time before the demand was
made for that 1874, 900. | was at home
one day when some friends called on
US, and with them were Gen. and
Mrs, Darr. They we're introduced,
and Mrs. Darr pretended to take q
great fancy to my daughters. When |
she learned that they we're a good
deal in San Francisco, she said, How !
NIGEL Why they can visit my girls
and be such friend, and it will be 80 |
pleasant" and then she laid her arm
about my daughters waist and looked
at her as though she loved her dearly, |
and Gen. Darr, he stood and just
beamed at us, yet he knew then that
he was going to prosecute US al, and
DO all in his power to bring disgrace
upon US. l believe that they just
came to spy out the place, appraise
The house and furniture and see what
The piano might fetch at auction, for
AOuuu MI D. LAR up bIdlIo, uuGb-
,orted and unlimited, looking into
rooms and peering at furniture like
/ second hand dealer at an auction"
What reason is there for Darr's
latred2"
II sometimes think that perhaps
Dol. Rogers crossed this man Darr
!. ars ago, but the colonel says he
ant remember anything of the kind.
have thought that Darr might have
,een some relative Of that man Bur-
on who prosecuted my husband
ears ago. From what the colonel
avs there is resemblance"
How will the matter end2"
THAT" said Mrs. Rogers, Il can
lot say. But it is we'll for Gen.
)arr that Col. Rogers has family
round him, some of them little ones,
r long before this he would have had
o settle with the man whom he has
pursued like a fiend for no cause
hat we can imagine except desire
0 e1tort money"